Archived research — the active practice is founder-facing decision guides.
The Lab
The research archive of Startup Engineering.
The Lab is the research archive of Startup Engineering: hands-on evaluations of agent skills, patterns, frameworks, and architectures, done with a published rubric. It's written for engineers. If you're a founder, the decision guides are for you — but if your engineer or investor wants to check the depth behind the advice, this is where it lives.
- Skills· 27Agent skill evaluations, scored against a public rubric for what actually works in a startup context.
- Patterns· 1Original thinking on recurring agent-engineering problems and the approaches that hold up under real pressure.
- Frameworks· 1Independent evaluations of conceptual frameworks from researchers and AI labs — adopt, selective, or skip.
- Architectures· 3Reference architectures from cloud vendors and analysts, assessed for real startup fit — not enterprise fit.
- Insights· 4Dated observations on where agent engineering is moving, with implications for the next 90 days.
- Tools· 0Evaluations of agent tools and developer products you might wire into a startup stack.
Also in the archive: the rubric, the philosophy and the agentic-engineering overview.